Attachment for type-writers.



F. P. BAILEY. ATTACHMENT FOR TYPE WRITERS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-18.1918.

Tatented Oct. 1, 1918.

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WITNESSES FRANK P. BAILEY, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

ATTACHMENT FOR TYPE-WRITERS.

Application filed January 18, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK P. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Type-Writers, of which improvement the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for returning the carriage of a typewriter to its initial position. The object of my invention is to produce a simple and eilicient device of this character, so positioned with relation to the keyboard that the carriage can be returned to its initial position, without raising the hand beyond the keyboard, and which is adapted to be applied to any well-known style of typewriter now on the market.

I accomplish this object by means of the device hereinafter more specifically described, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, in which:

Figure l is a side elevation of a fragmentary portion of a typewriter, showing my attachment thereto in side elevation.

A Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

Referring to said drawings, 1' is a base of an ordinary typewriter; 2 is the carriage mounted therein; 3 is a lazy tongs device, the links or members of which at one end are connected to a horizontally disposed rod, 4;, the opposite free end of which terminates in a ring adapted to engage over the return lever, 5, of the carriage. The outer ends of said lazy tong members opposite those attached to said rod are connected to lugs, 6, 7, formed on respectively the slide, 8, and the vertically disposed member, 9. The said vertically disposed'mernber, 9, is provided with guides 10,10, in which the slide, 8, is adapted to operate. The lower end of said slide, 8, is connected to the inner end of the lever, 11, which is pivotally secured to the lower horizontal portion of Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1, 1918. Serial No. 212,401.

the verticallydisposed member, 9. The said lever, 11, terminates in a hand rest, 12. A blade spring, 13, is mounted on a stud, 14, secured in the lower horizontal portion of said member, 9, the free ends of said spring engaging over a stud. 15, mounted on respectively the lever, 11, and the stud, 16, secured in said horizontal portion of member, 9. The said horizontal portion of said member is provided with bolt or screw holes, 17, whereby the same may be attached to the side frame of a typewriter. The advantage of my device in connection with the usual typewriter, is obvious. It can be readily attached, and when attached in no wise alters the usual mode of operating, and its use obviates the necessity of raising the hand away from the keyboard to return the carriage to initial position, as the operator, by pressing the ball of the hand upon the hand rest, quickly performs this operation.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In a device for attachment to a typewriter, to return the carriage to initial position, the coin'bination of a lazy tongs, a vertically supported standard, to the upper end of which one of the outer members of said lazy tongs is rigidly secured, a vertically disposed slide secured in guides fixed in said vertically disposed member, the lower end of one of the outer links of said lazy tongs being rigidly secured to the upper end of said slide, a lever connected to the lower end of said slide and a spring, one end of which engages a stud on said lever, and the opposite end a stud on the horizontal portion of the vertically disposed member.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK P. BAILEY.

In the presence of ALEX. S. MAnoN, JOHN H. Ronny. 

